Participative Management and Organisational Effectiveness

Participative Management is the process of involving subordinates in the decision-making process. It stresses active involvement of the employees. It uses their expertise and creativity in solving managerial problems. In general, participation in the decision-making process helps to achieve higher level of job satisfaction on the part of the employees and higher level of efficiency on the part of the organization. The concept of workers’ participation in Management governs most of the labour policies of the Government of India. To promote participation, the government has made several attempts in different forms through the Industrial Policy Resolutions. Currently, the public enterprises in India are under pressure to improve their performance in terms of return, quality of the products and pricing. The book participative management and Organisational Effectiveness analyses the various issues of participative management in the public sector based on the data collected from two textiles mills, on sampling basis. The quantitative analysis adopted for this work and the enriched methodology of approach followed in this study will serve as a good model for this type of works. The findings of this work will be of immense use of the policy makers in this field to decide the right form of participative management and also to gear up the level of participation through the identified variables.